Lagrangian Floer theory and Applications Program Dates: September 15–November 21, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This thematic program will focus on recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory and applications. These include the development of family Floer theory, degeneration techniques, Floer homotopy theory in the Lagrangian case, Floer theory in prime […]
Workshop on Lagrangian Floer Theory and Applications Dates: September 28 – October 2, 2026 Location: CMSA G10, 20 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 This workshop is part of the Lagrangian Floer Theory and Applications Program In Person Registration Zoom Webinar Registration Speakers will include: Mohammed Abouzaid, Stanford University Kenneth Blakey, MIT Ciprian Bonciocat, Stanford Soham […]
Colloquium Speaker: Mehran Kardar, MIT Title: Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity Abstract: Populations and communities rarely evolve in static environments; their fitness landscapes fluctuate across space and time, forming what may be called a noisy seascape. This talk examines how such variability modifies classical models of population dynamics and community stability. Beginning from the […]
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Tomer Schlank Title: From Markov processes to path integrals Abstract: We will continue with Chapter 2 of the book and cover how we take the Markov process approach and Wick rotation to give a rigorous definition of path integrals.
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Denis Auroux, Harvard Title: What is Lagrangian Floer homology?
AI for the Working Mathematician Speaker: Harold Williams, USC Title: An Informal Introduction to Formal Proofs Abstract: In this talk we will give an introduction to Lean, a programming language adapted to expressing and verifying proofs. Lean and its flagship library, mathlib, have been the focus of a dedicated user community for about a decade, […]
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar Speaker: Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala
Member Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman Title: Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations Abstract: In 1902, Painlevé classified second order differential equations whose only movable singularities are poles, thereby obtaining the six Painlevé equations. Algebraic solutions to Painlevé's sixth equation correspond to canonical triples of 2 by 2 complex matrices. One can alternatively view these […]
Colloquium Speaker: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard)
Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Shaoyun Bai, MIT Title: What is a virtual fundamental cycle? (ICM Series: On the work of John Pardon) Abstract: One of Pardon’s important contribution to symplectic topology is a new approach to constructing virtual fundamental cycles/chains for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic maps. As a former PhD student of John, my own […]
New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: tba